Kei Kumai's Umi Wa Miteita (The Sea Watches) has a script written by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa. O-Shin...
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2002
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In 1994, nerve gas was released in the Japanese city of Matsumoto, which led to the death to the death of seven people and...
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2001
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In this melodramatic romantic tragedy, a beautiful Japanese girl learns that the best kind of love is selfless love. Virginal...
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1997
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Based on a book by noted novelist Shusaku Endo, this film concerns three lost souls looking for meaning and redemption:...
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1995
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The island of Hokkaido, in Japan, is located near the Arctic Circle and is famous for its cold, snowy winters. In this...
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1992
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Veteran director Kei Kumai spins this tale about Toyoichi Otomo (Eiji Okuda) who suffers from psychological and spiritual...
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1990
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For those unfamiliar with its deep meaning, the Japanese tea ceremony appears to be a long, incredibly boring, basically...
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1989
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In this gruesome and extraordinarily explicit wartime medical horror story, based on a 1948 novel by Simsako Endo, two rival...
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1987
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Two rival surgical teams at a Japanese hospital perform gruesome experimental operations on healthy patients in this macabre...
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1986
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Released outside of Japan as Willful Murder, this is based on an actual 1948 case involving the mysterious death of a...
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1982
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For a brief period during the 16th century, the Portuguese and Dutch were permitted influence in Japan, with the result that...
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1978
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1975
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Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they...
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1974
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The very long but very worthwhile Sandakan No. 8 is set in mid-20th-century Japan. A crusading female journalist makes the...
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1974
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1972
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A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the...
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1970
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The building of a dam provides the framework for this Japanese drama. The trouble is that the dam is to be built along a...
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1968
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When a US Army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why the man lost...
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1966
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